Road to VR

MAY 15, 2023

Palmer Luckey, the founder of Oculus who left the company in 2017, appears to have insider knowledge of upcoming Apple XR headset, which is expected to be unveiled at its Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) next month. To Luckey, Apple’s hotly awaited entrance into the space is apparently “so good.”

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 1, 2021

So let me show you how you can develop an AR app for Oculus Quest 2 using Oculus Passthrough APIs in Unity. Oculus Passthrough APIs video tutorial. Oculus Passthrough APIs textual tutorial. Do this in the project settings to enable Oculus VR. Create and configure the project. Wait for Unity to do its boring stuff.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 22, 2020

Oculus has gained in these years always more success in the consumers’ landscape, and now with the Oculus Quest , thanks to an affordable device running great content , it is making strides in the market. Today, finally, Facebook has changed all of this and i s making Oculus For Business available to all interested companies.

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Road to VR

MARCH 9, 2018

GDC, hosted later this month in San Francisco, has long been an important event for Oculus. This year the company says they’re bringing brand new VR demos to the show and will host a session exploring the company’s plans for 2018. Oculus’ 6,000 square foot booth is among the largest in the event’s South Hall.

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Road to VR

JULY 22, 2020

A newly released update for the Oculus Browser on Quest includes full-finger hand-tracking support for WebXR projects. build of Oculus Browser, which now comes with a hand-tracking API and timewarp layer support, both of which are considered ‘experimental’ at this time. The feature was quietly released in the recent 10.2

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 23, 2018

3DNesVR is an emulator tool that runs Nintendo Entertainment System games in VR, letting you play the ’80s and ’90s classic titles that made the console a world-wide phenomenon. in May 2017, 3DNesVR is finally heading to Steam, with support for Oculus Rift, HTC Vive, and Windows VR headsets.

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VRScout

APRIL 10, 2020

for Physics Playground adds a whole suit of new features to the popular VR sandbox experience, including full-body physics, a brand new playground environment, improved NPC physics, new weaponry and tools, and a slew of other additions and optimizations; it’s basically Boneworks Lite for the Oculus Quest. – Exo.

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VRScout

DECEMBER 9, 2019

Navigate the Quest Home interface and first-party Oculus apps with your bare hands. Originally revealed during Oculus Connect 6 this past September, native hand tracking for Oculus Quest headsets is scheduled to begin rolling out this week as part of software update v12. . Image Credit: Oculus. Image Credit: Oculus.

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Road to VR

AUGUST 22, 2019

The full demo was around 15 minutes long, although for the sake of brevity I sped up a section where I forgot to properly arm myself with arrows, and also edited out one of my boring and senseless deaths. SEE ALSO Hands-on: 'Budget Cuts 2' Demo Brings a Bow and Arrow to a Knife Fight.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 4, 2020

The launch on Quest has gone pretty well , and the game has had good feedback from the press (apart from some graphical glitches that can be solved in future updates) and very positive reviews on the Oculus Store. Now there is the Oculus Quest. Oculus Quest and controllers (Image by Oculus).

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 5, 2024

I’m seeing many demos for the Vision Pro or the Quest in mixed reality where the passthrough is just a background for a virtual game, but I think that’s not the best way to exploit this technology. At that point, I used the new cool tools offered by Meta to set up passthrough into my project.

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VRScout

JULY 7, 2016

When we first tried Oculus’ new tool Medium at Connect last Fall, we were blown away by how intuitive and natural sculpting in VR could be. Much like Tilt Brush on the HTC Vive, Medium gives you a virtual palette and tool to create in a 3D space. Even some sculpting of Oculus friends Brian Sharp and Lydia Choy.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

When hand-tracking first became available, I quickly prototyped experimental support for the feature and released it in a demo on SideQuest as it seemed like hand-tracking could make for a very intuitive way of playing the game. The demo I made did not handle these limitations well. Build Tools That Save You Time.

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Road to VR

APRIL 27, 2021

Oculus App Lab, Facebook’s unmoderated app outlet, has largely stolen the thunder from the unofficial Quest app store SideQuest over the past few months. 1: Enable Oculus Developer Mode. Just head over to Oculus Developer Organization dashboard, login to your Oculus account, and create what Oculus considers an “organization.”

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

MARCH 7, 2024

The firm also highlighted a collaboration demo named Caddy, which enables remote groups to work on VR/MR CAD models. Meta notes how the Caddy demo highlights how VR/MR can increase accessibility to tools such as CAD and 3D modelling software – with Meta noting how the tech can “level the playing field.”

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

Developer Incuvo drops a new gameplay trailer alongside a free demo as part of Steam Next Fest. The Steam Festival demo, while short, offers a top-to-bottom taste of the core gameplay experience. The demo begins with you arriving in your jungle “paradise” and setting up camp.

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Road to VR

JUNE 11, 2019

This week at E3 2019, Oculus is showing their first ever demo of Lone Echo II , the anticipated followup to 2017’s Lone Echo. I got to check out the first ever demo of Lone Echo II at E3 2019 this week and got to see one of these new dynamic threats first hand. Image courtesy Ready at Dawn.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 10, 2020

Finland-based startup Varjo, makers of high-end enterprise VR headsets, has charted a rapid growth, similar to the early years of Oculus. Now with some 150 employees, Varjo wants to make its headset lineup more widely accessible by reducing prices so that smaller businesses can justify the cost. Varjo’s Vision of an XR Workplace.

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VRScout

AUGUST 22, 2020

VR/AR haptic feedback specialists Tactical Haptics this week revealed a new addition to its lineup of haptic controllers designed specifically for VR sword fighting, fishing, and tool training. Called the SaberGrip, this new cylindrical form-factor controller features tracking support for Oculus, SteamVR, Vicon, and OptiTrack.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 31, 2020

Facebook Connect is coming September, 16th Oculus de facto rebranded as Facebook Reality Labs. Oculus is de facto no more. This week, Facebook has finally announced the date of the Oculus Connect 7, which is September, 16th. But it won’t be called Oculus Connect 7, but Facebook Connect. Top news of the week.

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ARVR

APRIL 1, 2021

MeetinVR, a Danish world-leading platform for collaborative meetings in virtual reality, today announced the launch on the Oculus Store. We are very excited to be launching on the Oculus Store. This will enable many more people to access MeetinVR’s powerful collaboration tools with minimal effort.”?—?Cristian-Emanuel

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VRScout

OCTOBER 23, 2018

As a little-known initiative, Oculus is actively funneling in talent with the promise of training, tools and other resources that developers — new and old — can use to build projects for the Oculus platform as well as for the greater VR ecosystem. The majority of our team consists of USC students.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 18, 2022

It lacks all Oculus Exclusive titles like Beat Saber and Population One, but its store is becoming anyway interesting. Meta starts offering monetization tools in Horizon Worlds, but with a big toll. Meta has started offering some beta monetization tools inside Horizon Worlds. 10 Years of Oculus. Other relevant news.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 17, 2020

The Oculus Quest 2 is the device of the moment. Oculus Quest 2 Video Review. Oculus Quest 2 Video Review. If you want to watch a video review of the Oculus Quest 2 instead of reading my post, you can do it here! Opening an Oculus’s box is always an experience before the experience for the user.

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VRScout

APRIL 15, 2021

Facebook today announced the launch of premium app subscriptions on the Oculus Quest platform. Tribe XR // Image Credit: Facebook, Oculus. Image Credit: Facebook, Oculus. App subscriptions can be purchased directly through the Oculus Store via the Oculus app on your mobile device or straight from your Oculus Quest headset.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 19, 2019

One of the most discussed themes in the VR communities nowadays is the Oculus Quest content curation. SideQuest is a tool that let you install and uninstall unapproved apps on your Quest easily, and can be also be used to move your Oculus Go apps to your Quest. B ut there is a solution to this: SideQuest. Aren’t I cool? (If

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VRScout

JUNE 13, 2019

Especially for the Oculus Quest. Oculus Quest owners, rejoice!! Also included is the Sky Brush tool, which lets you use your rocket-flying capabilities to paint the sky itself with a variety of colors. Richie’s Plank Experience will be available on the Oculus Quest June 27 th. VR was a big part of E3 2019.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JUNE 21, 2017

Today at an event in San Francisco HTC hosted a Vive X Demo Day for its second batch of funded company demos. The event featured 26 different companies ranging from game developers, enterprise applications, ease-of-use convenience tools, and a litany of other projects. Snobal – This company builds VR Tools for businesses.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 10, 2019

I’m writing my review on the Oculus Quest (it will be out tomorrow!) All the developer studios working on Oculus Quest when the Quest was announced (Image by Upload VR). Oculus wants to ensure that every person buying a Quest will be able to play only high-quality games. So, I am ok with content review.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 25, 2020

Image by Oculus). Oculus Quest becomes 1 year old, and Facebook makes many announcements. The Oculus Quest is now one year old. But the greatest feature is that finally Oculus is accepting hands-tracked applications in the Oculus Store from the 28th of this month! Happy birthday, Oculus Quest!

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

Eye of the Temple impressed us with its unique room-scale gameplay and inventive locomotion style back in its free demo last year. Fans of the surprisingly full-featured demo on Steam will be happy to hear that Indiana Jones-style adventure Eye of the Temple will be releasing on SteamVR headsets on October 14th, 2021.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

This week has been the week of the Oculus Connect 6 , the biggest yearly event by Oculus where the VR company announces all its most important news, both on hardware and software sides. Oculus Link. You can even access to Oculus Home and Dash. Oculus Link will be available in beta in November 2019.

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Ryan Schultz

MARCH 15, 2023

The standard Vive controllers feel more like tools, as opposed to hand extensions, and I can only imagine how much more of a newbie learning curve setting up the Knuckles controllers would be, given how much fidgeting and adjusting I have to do to get my set at home to work “just right”). (The Safety first: clear your demo space!

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 12, 2019

The time for my Oculus Quest review has come. The Quest has a nice packaging , as all Oculus products. I really love opening Oculus products , since usually they are packaged really well, and the Quest is no exception. Oculus Quest box content (Image by Oculus). Front view of the Oculus Quest.

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VRScout

JULY 25, 2016

This tool shows the future of VR sculpting and 3-D printing for artists. Chang is rocking a Rift headset and upcoming Touch hand-controllers to create with Oculus’ sculpture tool — Medium. Oculus Medium lets you sculpt, model, smooth, paint and create works of art in a VR environment.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 20, 2020

Last Oculus Quest update shows hints of an Oculus MR ecosystem. Facebook is continuously updating the Oculus Quest , its most successful device, and this week it has rolled out the runtime v16. I think that this update, together with the last ones, marks the beginning of a mixed reality ecosystem that is being built by Oculus.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 4, 2018

At Oculus Connect 5 , Oculus has announced Casting, an amazing feature that lets you stream the content of an Oculus Go to a smartphone. How to use Casting to stream Oculus Go content to your smartphone. Follow my guide on how to update your Oculus Go until you can select the “Cast” option).

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